"That's a good point. But calling attention to one's functional illiteracy strikes me as something that a movement without money would do rather than the work of a millionaire puppeteer."

Who is it for though? these people are on display to scare somebody. And who are they intended to scare? They are intended to scare the majority of Americans so that we will seek protection from Obama and Wall Street, and say, yes, take whatever you want just please protect us from these illiterate crackers. This propaganda featuring these hicks with their comically illiterate signs is for the benefit of highly educated, literate, cultured elites, who promise to protect everyone from the variety of bogeys. The point is, you can't just have minority bogeys anymore in the US - you have to scare black people and latin@s and arab americans and jews and feminists and gays and lots of white people who are not scared by the traditional minority bogeys too, and you can't scare them/us with them/ourselves. So these scary hicks become visible and are added to the bogey pantheon. they exist of course, as do terrorists and rapists and pedophiles...but they are becoming a term in the justification of the status quo and the dominant class.